"I found them lying just a few yards away. They’d had their legs blown off and all I could see when I got to them was their thigh bones. I will always remember their white thigh bones. The rest of their legs were gone.
Private Bob Young, was conscious right to the last. I lay alongside of him and said, 'Can I do anything for you, Bob?'
He said, “Straighten my legs, Jack,” but he had no legs. I touched the bones and that satisfied him.
Then he said, 'Get my wife’s photograph out of my breast pocket'. I took it out and put it in his hands. He couldn’t move, he couldn’t lift a hand, he couldn’t lift a finger, but somehow he held his wife’s photograph on his chest. And that’s how Bob Young died." - Sgt. Jack Dorgan, 1/7th Northumberland Fusiliers, Ypres, Belgium, 1915 #stayzero #ww1 #zerofoxtrot #real #war